New Year, Old Laughs

This last holiday is tricky one to navigate, with it’s injunction for fun fuelled by inebriation:

And it’s aftermath leaves us resolved to do better and be better with the predictable results.

The takeaway is not to bite off more than you can eschew.

Still, as we slide into 2014, it would be a sin to abstain from all fun, so perhapsit’s not a bad idea to resolve to view this slide show of some of the magazine’s favorite New Year’s cartoons. We won’t judge.

Bob Mankoff was the cartoon editor of The New Yorker from 1997 to 2017.